economic activity, especially international trade. We study the effects of war on bilateral trade with available data extending … back to 1870. Using the gravity model, we estimate the contemporaneous and lagged effects of wars on the trade of … belligerent nations and neutrals, controlling for other determinants of trade as well as the possible effects of reverse causality …

supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations … have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … for 1760 and 1850. Neither claim is supported. Trade was vital for the progress of the industrial revolution; but it was …

Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s. This …

, as we aggregate from product level trade data to SITC industry level trade data the estimated survival increases. We rank …

have argued that trade makes war less likely, yet World War I erupted at a time of unprecedented globalization. This paper … develops a theoretical model of the relationship between trade and war which can help to explain both these observations …

trade. Yet there is substantial unexplored variation, since not all countries experienced the same depth of shock in the …

history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to … encourage a level playing field. The type of trade mattered as much as the volume. In the European core, states emulated the … labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …

influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of … market for American products. Our analysis is able to rule out decreased bilateral trade costs, changing political ideology …